Kategorie: Leadership & Coaching
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What Is Academia Don T Ask The Dumbest Generation
Bauerlein, Mark (2009). The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, 212. Story behind the Passage “Oh, could you please be a little less academic about this?” Have you ever heard this sentence in response to something you said or presented? If yes, you are probably above 30 and graduated…
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How Much Personal Diversity Is Too Much
Cox, Taylor, Jr. (1993). Cultural Diversity in Organizations: Theory, Research, and Practice, 11. Story behind the Passage A few years ago, it must have been in 2015, I gave a talk about diversity management in front of an academic association of cultural and literary studies scholars. To make a long story short: They ripped me…
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Just Read Dear Scholars
Hoff, Benjamin (1982). The Tao of Pooh, 25–26. Story behind the Passage Tomorrow, Nov 20, Germany is going to celebrate the “Day of Reading” (Tag des Vorlesens). This is a day that seeks to raise awareness of the importance of reading, particularly reading to children. As someone who writes books across all genres and for different…
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Excellence Takes Brain
Peters, Thomas J., and Robert H. Waterman Jr. (1982). In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies, 29. Story behind the Passage My best friend is in Japan right now. Getting to know a new culture and learning a new language is not that easy in the middle of a pandemic while wearing a…
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My Story As A Bystander
Drucker, Peter F. (1994). Adventures of a Bystander, 81. Story behind the Passage Peter Drucker is my hero. I told you before when I discussed a passage from one of his other books (“Management by Objectives”). Do we need heroes? Sure! We all do. Humans love heroes. From childhood onwards, we keep looking for heroes….
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Saying No To The Mba Bubble
Zanetti, Mariana (2013). The MBA Bubble: Why Getting an MBA Is a Bad Idea, 140. Story behind the Passage What does it take to say “no” to something? It is just a word, you think? Why would it be difficult? Well, ask yourself right now when someone asked you to take a new job/role with more…
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Tupperware S Brownie Wise Erasing History
Mason, Fergus (2014). Brownie Wise: Tupperware Queen, 85. Story behind the Passage This morning I wanted to write a text about an interview that I had conducted almost a year ago with a medium-sized industrial company. The business has continuously expanded since its founding almost 150 years ago. I had done the interview with the two…
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Special Part 2 The Myth Of The Professorship As A Calling And How You Can Become Who You
# 23 SPECIAL (Part 2): The Myth of the Professorship as a “Calling“ and How You Can Become Who You Really Are Urban Dictionary CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY (Read Part 1) What is a real mission? As you can see above, the concept of “mission” is used for businesses as well, including startups. In the following, I…
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Experience Is
Blanchard, Ken, William Oncken, Jr., and Hal Burrows (2004, fourth ed.): The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey, 50. Story behind the Passage Who would have thought that I can choose a passage that is so brief? Given that all my previous choices were much longer, this is a welcome exception. As you will see, however,…
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Management By Objectives
Drucker, Peter F. (2005/1954). The Practice of Management, 144. Story behind the Passage The story behind this passage is very simple. I love Peter Drucker! He is my absolute management hero. I love him so much that I spent a whole chapter in my habilitation (second academic book) on his first study about General Motors…